[dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS 2010

Boy, I'm agreeing with Charlotte too! (of course, after I agreed with
Max, he got a little snooty with his posts....)

So just out of curiosity, what can you do in C# that you can't do in
VB.Net and vice versa?  What I have found with VB 6, is that there
really isn't anything you can't do, you just can't do it a certain way.
I have run into one issue a few months ago, where VB was just going to
be WAY to complicated.  Had to do with ftps.  A secured FTP protocol
that uses key encryption.  It's possible to do it in VB, but it's a roll
your own TCP/IP comms using that encryption, where as VB.Net has
libraries to handle it. 


But things like inheritance are an internal difference, not an external.
It allows for designing things in a different way, but the end result
can be functionally the same.


But I am curious, since when I have time, I'd like to be delving into
both of these languages....

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:54 PM
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS
2010

In the current versions (2005 and 2008), there are some things you can
do in C# that you can't do in VB, but not many.  Of course, there's
nothing to stop you from using, say, a J# dll to harness the power of
THAT dialect, so it isn't an overwhelming advantage.  There are things
you can do in VB you can't in C# too.  In the next version, that becomes
history.  There's a lemming trend that seems to happen with languages:
the more esoteric the language, the more "professional".  If any fool
can read the code and possibly make sense of it, it can't be a "real"
language for "professional" programmers.  Weren't you aware of that??

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:44 AM
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Recent Discussion from MS on VB.Net and C# in VS
2010

Actually, I'm enjoying the discussion, don't leave yet.  I installed
Visual Studio 2008 months ago, cause some day I'm going to dig into C#
and VB.Net when I have time! (that very well might be after the world is
destroyed in 2012, but hey, here's hoping I get to it!)

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